Concept Art: Unproduced "Monsters, Inc." and "Toy Story" Sequels

Back in 2005, Disney set up a company called Circle 7 when there were talks of Disney and Pixar going their own separate ways. Circle 7 would have then produced sequels to "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life," "The Incredibles," "Finding Nemo," "Cars" and "Monsters, Inc." But then Disney acquired Pixar in 2006 and everything that Circle 7 has been working on was thrown away.

It turns out that Circle 7 was already developing "Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost In Scaradise," written by Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir. In the sequel, Mike and Sulley decide to visit Boo to wish her a happy birthday but learn that she has moved away. They decide to look for Boo and as a result aren't allowed to return to Monstropolis until they find her.

Pixar's real sequel to "Monsters, Inc." is going in a different direction. There have been talks that the story would be a prequel and focus on Mike and Sulley during their university days.

Hilgenberg and Muir also posted concept art for their version of "Toy Story 3," which would have been about a malfunctioning Buzz Lightyear being recalled to Taiwan. There would have been other Buzz toys shipped from around the world and speaking different languages. Buzz then learns that he will not be repaired, but crushed since it's easier to ship new toys than fix recalled ones.

If I've ever felt more apathetic for a set of films, other than now, I don't know when it was, because I couldn't care less about a Monsters sequel nor a Toy Story one either, but I do agree that the proposed story for the third TS film does sound better than what we got.